AP -- Iran's deputy foreign minister says the nuclear deal between the Islamic Republic and world powers "will not be renegotiated" ahead of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump taking office this week. In a press conference Sunday marking the one-year anniversary of the agreement's implementation, Abbas Araghchi told reporters that "the new U.S. administration ...

MNA A former IAEA fellow and its deputy director-general has told Mehr News that it should not be surprising if Iran and the US were to start some pre/re-negotiations on JCPOA once Trump takes over as president. In an interview conducted by Mehr News International Service, Olli Hainonen talked about the possible scenarios for Irans nuclear deal ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The talks themselves were a groundbreaking and risky proposition when U.S. and Iranian officials met secretly in the sleepy Arab kingdom of Oman, archenemies feinting for a diplomatic opening. The opposing sides had barely spoken to one another in three-plus decades. But after a torturous 2 1/2-year effort full of false starts,...

Major issues remain unresolved in the Iran nuclear talks, a senior U.S. official said on Sunday in a comment that appeared designed to play down speculation that an agreement was imminent. "We have never speculated about the timing of anything during these negotiations, and we're certainly not going to start now - especially given the fact that ...

The United States is making demands on Iran that are not related to these ongoing nuclear negotiations between Tehran and the P5+1 group of countries, an American political activist and commentator says. Mark Glenn, a writer and co-founder of the Crescent and Cross Solidarity Movement, made the comments in an interview with Press TV on Saturday ...

VIENNA (AP) -- The Iran nuclear talks shifted Friday to a blame game, as Iran's foreign minister accused the United States of shifting its demands and dismissed a warning that the U.S. was ready to quit the negotiations. Hours after his comments, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif met again with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry for ...

A former Iranian diplomat says that the think tanks, not diplomats, should study the ways by which Iran and the US can restore mutual trust. A former Iranian diplomat says that creation of a crack in the thick wall of distrust between Iran and the US not thickening that wall was one of the preliminary underpinnings of putting the prolonged nuclear ...

VIENNA (AP) -- Iran nuclear talks were in danger of busting through their second deadline in a week Tuesday, raising questions about the ability of world powers to cut off all Iranian pathways to a bomb through diplomacy, and testing the resolve of U.S. negotiators to walk away from the negotiation as they've threatened. As the latest target date ...

Vienna, July 4, IRNA The Iran and US negotiating teams, led by Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif and the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, started another round of talks on sticking points. Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), Ali-Akbar Salehi, and the US Secretary of Energy, Ernest Moniz, held more than three hours talks....

The good thing about an arbitrary, self-imposed deadline is that it can be moved without consequence. The international diplomatic talks with Iran, for example, were supposed to wrap up yesterday, but negotiators believe theyre still making progress so they gave themselves an extension the new deadline is next Tuesday, July 7. Its still unclear ...

VIENNA The United States warned Iran on Monday, in both English and Persian, that a preliminary agreement reached two months ago in Switzerland must remain the basis for a final nuclear deal. The warning appeared to reflect concerns among American and European negotiators that Irans supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been attempting to ...

Iran will get too much Once Iran learned how to make a nuke, there wasnt much chance for a really good and reassuring deal on the nuclear issue. The agreement being negotiated now may well be the least bad of the terrible options available to slow Irans nuclear program. But we should be clear-eyed about what else we may be getting from this deal:...

On June 5-7, a cross-party group of members of the European Parliament visited Iran as a confidence-building measure ahead of the June 30 deadline for a final deal on Irans nuclear program. The fact that both sides took this opportunity seriously is illustrated by the level of meetings in Tehran and the presence in the delegation of a number of ...

The next round of Iran nuclear negotiations will be "pretty tough," a senior U.S. official said on Wednesday ahead of new talks including top diplomats from the seven countries involved. Iran and six major powers reached a framework nuclear deal on April 2 in Lausanne, Switzerland, and are seeking to strike a final agreement by June 30 under which ...

A new Zogby Analytics poll indicates that there is strong public support among the Americans for the continuation of the nuclear talks between Iran and the major powers. On the deal, the poll asked 909 likely voters nationwide which of the statements represented their views more: Continue present negotiations between the major powers and Iran ...

All the actors in the wider Near East are waiting anxiously to know what Washington and Teheran have decided for their future. Since no-one knows, and in order to ensure their own survival, everyone has to imagine hypotheses and prepare for sudden changes in the situation. In this article, Thierry Meyssan explains his predictions. The meeting ...

A recent opinion poll conducted by the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting Organization (IRIB) shows the majority of the Iranian people do not trust the US with regard to a possible final deal between Iran and the P+1 groupover Tehrans nuclear program. Speaking in the northeastern province of South Khorasan, IRIB President Mohammad Sarafraz said ...

Qom, May 17, IRNA Senior cleric Ayatollah Seyyed Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi said on Sunday that the US is now in a weak position in nuclear talks with Iran and it needs negotiations more than Iran does. Addressing a group of clerics in Qom, he said the economic sanctions imposed on Iran truly indicated the weakness of the enemy. Referring to ...

America's Secretary of State is a lot like a carpenter who only has a hammer. To him, every problem looks like a nail to be struck. Only the military is Secretary John Kerry's hammer, with war Washington's universal panacea for any international problem. When should a country loose the dogs of war? Throughout much of human history the policy simply ...

Many Americans like the idea of the preliminary deal on Irans nuclear program but very few people believe Tehran will follow through with the agreement. An Associated Press-GfK poll finds that just three percent said they were very confident that Iran would allow inspections of its nuclear facilities, remove plutonium from the country and shut down ...